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Contemporary European Studies.
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Dear Italian-Studies Subscribers,
I hope the following will be of interest to you:
Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the
Cold War
David Forgacs and Stephen Gundle
Examines the impact of mass culture and the making of modern Italy
"A
well-researched and well-written co-authored book which will be of maximum
interest to scholars of Italian history, society, and culture alike."
—Jacqueline Reich, Stony Brook University
The 1930s to the 1950s in Italy witnessed large increases in
film-going, radio-listening, and the sale of music and weekly magazines. The
industries that made and sold commercial, cultural products were transformed by
the new technologies of reproduction and new approaches to marketing and
distribution.
Yet historians tend to place the "real" genesis of mass
culture in the 1960s, or to generalize about the harnessing of mass culture to
the Fascist political project, without considering what kind of mass culture
existed at the time and whether this harnessing was successful. This book draws
on extensive new evidence, including oral histories and archival material, to
explore possible continuities between the uses of mass culture before and after
World War II.
David Forgacs is Professor of Italian at University of London. His research
interests are in the cultural history of modern Italy and history of the media.
He is author of Rome Open City and L'industrializzazione della cultura italiana
(1800-2000) and editor with Robert Lumley of Italian Cultural Studies: An
Introduction and with Sarah Lutton and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith of Roberto
Ruossellini: Magician of the Real. He is currently Research Professor at the
British School at Rome working on a three-year project (2006-2009) on language,
space, and power in Italy since Unification.
Stephen Gundle is Professor
of Film and Television Studies at Warwick University. His research interests are
in modern Italian cultural and poltiical history. He is author of Between
Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture,
1943-1991 and Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy, and editor with
Simon Parker of The New Italian Republic and, with Lucia Rinaldi, of
Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy. He is currently directing a
large-scale collaborative project on "The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the
Italianns, 1918-2005."
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
2008. 376 pages, 16 b&w photos, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
ISBN-13:
978-0-253-21948-0
£13.99 PB
Julia Monk
Marketing Manager
Combined Academic
Publishers
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